ZetorShaun
Bronze Member
I have been caught sleeping I guess. My third barn faces away from the house. An unknown subject went in and slashed all the tires on my Kawasaki Mule, dumped out all my petrol, oil, and lubricants, tried to start a fire which thankfully must have put itself out, and likely harassed (by throwing rocks at him) my dog who was inside the barn in his kennel. My spouse was at a concealed weapons permit class at the time of the vandalism.
I fenced the southeast corner of my 100 acres, the only portion not fenced with woven wire. My neighbor kept harassing me, torn down my posted signs and stole lots of T-posts. My neighbor was also killing deer off his back porch on my property and I would find the bodies in my fields (poor shot). Three times I caught his son with several other kids playing paintball in my woods and told them to leave. Once I caught them twice in one day, took pictures, and called the sheriff who does not respond to trespassing complaints, the county prosecutor would not do anything about it. He calls me and swears at me, blah, blah, blah. I know this was his son.
I am in the active duty Army in Iraq. This is what I am doing:
I am going through my bank, USAA, we will put in an ADT system in the house with a sensor at every window and door that are easy to get to.
$1000.00
I am going to get the garage door installed in one barn, and that way we can lock the one barn. Move my high dollar items to that one, heavy, low cost things to the other. $3500.00
I am getting three infra red motion sensor game cameras. One for the most likely path leading to my house from theirs, one facing the barn, and one facing down my driveway. They will be hidden and difficult to spot, they will be infrared so no flash. Maybe a fourth somewhere. $900-1200.00
I am going to have the power company install a big street lamp on our utility pole that will automatically come on at dusk and shut off at dawn and be paid on our electric bill. ($?)
I will install motion lights on each barn front and back. $200-300.00
We may be getting a second dog. $Millions
The home door locks will be replaced by bump proof locks with double keyed deadbolts. $1500.00
What else can I do? I am trying to do this from Iraq which makes this even more frustrating. I am out here, even today, seizing machine guns and home made explosives, and the sheriff will not protect my family.
I emailed the State Patrol, I was a State Trooper in SC prior to the war, I thought they could at least send a Trooper to check out the situation. The sheriff handled all the past incidents over the phone!!!(I called them 2 times, once over the stolen t-posts, and the other the above mentioned trespass). The are not a professional agency.
I do not want to take action that will be counter-productive and instigate more incidents before I get my physical security measures in place. I go on leave in April, so I can only try to make things better.
What other things should/can I do? What type of game cameras? Price is not a concern. Thanks for your comments.
I fenced the southeast corner of my 100 acres, the only portion not fenced with woven wire. My neighbor kept harassing me, torn down my posted signs and stole lots of T-posts. My neighbor was also killing deer off his back porch on my property and I would find the bodies in my fields (poor shot). Three times I caught his son with several other kids playing paintball in my woods and told them to leave. Once I caught them twice in one day, took pictures, and called the sheriff who does not respond to trespassing complaints, the county prosecutor would not do anything about it. He calls me and swears at me, blah, blah, blah. I know this was his son.
I am in the active duty Army in Iraq. This is what I am doing:
I am going through my bank, USAA, we will put in an ADT system in the house with a sensor at every window and door that are easy to get to.
$1000.00
I am going to get the garage door installed in one barn, and that way we can lock the one barn. Move my high dollar items to that one, heavy, low cost things to the other. $3500.00
I am getting three infra red motion sensor game cameras. One for the most likely path leading to my house from theirs, one facing the barn, and one facing down my driveway. They will be hidden and difficult to spot, they will be infrared so no flash. Maybe a fourth somewhere. $900-1200.00
I am going to have the power company install a big street lamp on our utility pole that will automatically come on at dusk and shut off at dawn and be paid on our electric bill. ($?)
I will install motion lights on each barn front and back. $200-300.00
We may be getting a second dog. $Millions
The home door locks will be replaced by bump proof locks with double keyed deadbolts. $1500.00
What else can I do? I am trying to do this from Iraq which makes this even more frustrating. I am out here, even today, seizing machine guns and home made explosives, and the sheriff will not protect my family.
I emailed the State Patrol, I was a State Trooper in SC prior to the war, I thought they could at least send a Trooper to check out the situation. The sheriff handled all the past incidents over the phone!!!(I called them 2 times, once over the stolen t-posts, and the other the above mentioned trespass). The are not a professional agency.
I do not want to take action that will be counter-productive and instigate more incidents before I get my physical security measures in place. I go on leave in April, so I can only try to make things better.
What other things should/can I do? What type of game cameras? Price is not a concern. Thanks for your comments.